and these Chicago Communists all circle back to 0bama’s childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis...
https://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/tag/obama-robert-m-weissbourd-dr-quentin-young/
In April of 1927 Davis began his journalism career as an editor and columnist with the Chicago Evening Bulletin. He married Thelma Boyd in Atlanta on July 12, 1931, and moved back to Chicago in 1934.
In 1945, Frank Marshall Davis taught one of the first jazz history courses in the United States at the Abraham Lincoln School in Chicago. He married Chicago socialite Helen Canfield on May 11, 1946 before moving to Hawaii.
The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Sciences was a Chicago institution of the 1930s and 1940s, run by the Communist Party USA, located at 180 West Washington Street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_School_for_Social_Science
https://prabook.com/web/bernice.weissbourd/598913
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-12-09-0112090421-story.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-02-21-8903070040-story.html
Bernard Weissbourd, SB’41, JD’48, a researcher, attorney, and developer, died November 2, in Evanston, IL. He was 78. Weissbourd studied chemistry as an undergraduate, then interrupted his law training at Chicago to enlist in the Army during World War II. He was soon recruited for the Manhattan Project, inventing equipment to detect elements. He then returned to the Law School; after ten years in a Chicago law practice, Weissbourd was asked to take over a development company for which he had served as counsel. Under his leadership, Metropolitan Structures became the nation’s largest commercial real-estate firm. He is survived by his wife, Bernice Targ Weissbourd, X’45; a daughter, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, AB’71, AM’75, PhD’84; two sons, including Robert M. Weissbourd, JD’79; and 11 grandchildren.
https://mhubchicago.com/directory/3269
Bob served on the Obama Transition HUD Agency Review Team and as chair of the Obama for America Campaign Urban and Metropolitan Policy Committee.
Ayers interview GMA November 2008, says he is most definitely a guy around the neighborhood, but they also knew each other quite well, although that doesn’t make Barry guilty of blowing up the U.S., but also nobody should be demonizing Ayers either because he was on the right side and blowing up things for good reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkRBTH-eFoM
CNN’s Cuomo was on GMA?
https://www.keywiki.org/Quentin_Young
Quentin D. Young is a Chicago based retired medical practicioner and prominent socialist activist. He has been a close personal friend an mentor to Barack Obama. Quentin Young was married to Ruth Young who died in 2007 and is the father of Ethan Young and Polly Young.
American Student Union - ASU
Quentin Young was listed as a member of the National Executive Committee of the ASU Elected at the Fourth Annual Convention - 1938, from the “High School” representatives. “Quentin Young, Hyde Park H. S., Chicago”. This source is found in the famous “Appendix IX” publication of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on “H.Res. 282”, “Committee Print, Appendix - Part IX, Communist Front Organizations with Special Reference to “The National Citizens Political Action Committee]] NCPAC, First Section, Second Section, and Third Section, Pages 261-1048, GPO, 1944, Item 30, American Student Union, Pages 514-523, Quentin Young on P. 523.
The NCPAC was cited by Congress as a Communist Party USA (CPUSA), political action front, and was featured in a number of very large and detailed volumes of Appendix IX, which were ordered destroyed by the Democrats in Congress because it showed that a significant number of Democrats were very active supporters of CPUSA fronts and causes during the 1930’s through 1944, when the investigations concluded. An unknown number of complete sets of Appendix IX were saved by at least one SCUA staffer, the late Ben Mandel, a former radical turned anti-communist. Keywiki.org has access to these volumes and its related Index of individuals.
Among other top ASU National Executive Committee members elected at the 1938 convention were the following, some of who remain controversial about their communist activities even till today.
Molly Yard - National Officer, Swarthmore, Chairman. Best known to the 60’s/70’s generations as a founder and leader of the National Organization of Women (NOW)
Joseph P. Lash - Executive Secretary, CCNY. Best known as a close friend and advisor to Eleanor Roosevelt including during the presidency of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In a book about him, he admitted his communist affiliations and essentially renounced them, but suspicions about his true political leanings have remained till today.
Bernie Firestone - Vice-Chairman, Un. of California, Berkeley, West. Is probably the same person who was a leftist labor leader in the 1960s onward.
Boone Schirmer - District Secretary, New England, Harvard. Long an identified key New England leader of the CPUSA, including having been identified by FBI undercover agent Herbert A. Philbrick in the HCUA Hearings on Communism in Massachusetts during the mid-1950’s. Schirmer later shows up in the Hanoi Lobby efforts against the US in Vietnam, as well as being a key member of a maoist-oriented communist front known as Friends of the Filipino People (FFP).
Many members of the ASU were not communists and severed ties later on as they found out about its true nature. The ASU will be discussed at their site on this Keywiki database.
YCL member
Quentin Young was a member of the Young Communist League USA in pre-WW2 Chicago - while attending Hyde Park High School.[1]
Quentin Young “fought fascism”, with his friend Bernice Weissbourd in the pre-War period[2].
https://www.keywiki.org/Bernice_Weissbourd
Bernice Targ Weissbourd is the widow of Bernard Weissbourd and the mother of Robert Weissbourd.
1930’s activism
In the 1930s, Bernice Weissbourd “fought fascism” with her friend Quentin Young, a member of the Young Communist League USA in the pre-War period[1].
Abraham Lincoln School
The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Sciences was a Chicago institution of the 1930’s and 1940’s, run by the Communist Party USA.
Faculty members were Morris Backall, Michael Baker, Frank Marshall Davis, Horace Davis, David Englestein, Morton Goldsholl, Pat Hoverder, Alfonso Iannelli, Leon Katzen, Ludwig Kruhe, Herschel Meyer, Henry Noyes, William L. Patterson, Fred Ptashne, Eleanore Redwin, Boris M. Revsine, Frank Sokolik, William Rose, Herman Schendel, Bernice Targ and Morris Topchevsky.
https://www.keywiki.org/Frank_Marshall_Davis
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a journalist, poet and Communist Party USA activist in Chicago and Hawaii. In Hawaii he was a mentor to a young Barack Obama.
The FBI file on Davis, consisting of 601 pages and covering the years 1944-1963, means that Davis was under investigation or surveillance for at least 19 years. One document refers to Davis having Communist Party USA affiliations dating back to 1931. He was included in the FBI’s security index, meaning that he could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency.
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In early 1948 Davis served on the publicity committee of the Citizens’ Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers with Vernon Jarrett.
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Mentoring Obama
Frank Marshall Davis, 1980s
Frank Marshall Davis knew Barack Obama from as early as 9 or 10, until he left Hawaii for Occidental College in 1978 at the age of 18.
Some accounts say that Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 . But British journalist Toby Harnden says that the Punahou School, the coeducational college preparatory day school in Honolulu that Obama attended from 1971 to 1979, was adamant that Obama took his entrance examine in autumn 1970. “It’s possible he briefly went back to Indonesia before actually starting at the school,” he said. But whether it was 1970 or 1971 ,Some accounts say that Obama returned to Hawaii in 1971 . This adds several years to the amount of time that Davis was exercising influence over Obama.
Barack Obama’s 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father, included several examples of Obama receiving advice from Frank Marshall Davis...